News about Robert Montgomery

New Jersey woman, 54, with TWO terminal diseases is given combination of a PIG kidney and heart device to save her life in pioneering op

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 24, 2024
Doctors have transplanted a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman who was near death, part of a dramatic pair of surgeries that also stabilized her failing heart.

Organ transplant breakthrough as pig's kidney survives in body of brain dead man for two months

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 24, 2023
The genetically engineered kidney (pictured right) was discovered in the body of 58-year-old Maurice Miller (pictured left) for 61 days before it was removed, life support switched off, and the body was returned to the family. The research, which is the longest-documented case of its kind, brings new hope to organ supply to those in dire need of a transplant. It was the fifth xenotransplant at the Langone Transplant Institute at New York University, which took place on July 14. After being declared brain dead, Mr Miller, who had been on a ventilator with his family's permission, was rescued on September 13.

In a recent trend, pig kidney transplanted in a human lasted for two months, which may have been a major breakthrough in organ donation

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 14, 2023
Since New York doctors discovered a pig kidney in a man for 61 days, the longest a non-human organ has lived in a human. The surgery, which was carried out on July 14, implanted the kidney in 58-year-old Maurice 'Mo' Miller, whose body was donated by his family after he was declared dead by neurologic measures and maintained with a beating heart on ventilator support. The research concluded on Wednesday when doctors removed the genetically modified organ, and Miller's sister said her final goodbyes on Wednesday.

A. Pig kidney kidneys have been working in a non-profit body for more than a month

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 16, 2023
Since a New York team replaced a brain-dead man's organ with one from a pig, the world is one step closer to providing more organs for transplants. The experiment was carried out on a 57-year-old man named Maurice 'Mo' Miller from upstate New York whose body was donated by his family. Unlike previous attempts, Wednesday's triumph was due to the pig's genetically modified organs so that its organs were more similar to the human body.

Toni Millevoi, a Sydney mother, speaks out after being barred from importing eyelash serum with liquid ecstasy

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 8, 2023
A mother of two has broken her silence by saying she was unaware of what she was buying was illicit. After being found to have'acted recklessly' when importing an eye lash glue remover from Korea that contained gamma butyrolactone (GBL), the mother from Cobbity in south-west Sydney, Toni Millevoi was sentenced to two years in 2021.

After he assaulted and murdered a girl, 15, in England, a depraved pensioner, 75, has been sentenced to life for life

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 13, 2023
Dennis McGrory was 28 years old when he sexually assaulted, stabbed, and strangled Jacqui Montgomery, a 15-year-old girl from Islington, north London, in 1975. The 75-year-old was cleared of murder the following year on the advice of a judge, but he was finally found guilty decades later after swabs from Ms Montgomery's body resulted in a one-in-a-billion DNA match. McGrory's appeal was referred to the Court of Appeal and referred for a fresh trial at the Old Bailey following a 2003 amendment in the law on double liability.

According to JEFF PRESTRIDGE, my word is my Bond... now for £1 million

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 1, 2023
In the run-up to Christmas, I made three Premium Bond gifts, two to newly-born grandchildren Archie and Arthur. Sadly, although Arthur's gift card arrived in time for Xmas, the other two are yet to arrive.

Neighbours reveal their horror as killer is convicted of 1975 rape and murder of teenage girl

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 30, 2022
Dennis McGrory (left) was the kind of neighbor who, as the old saying goes, would give you a cup of sugar if you knocked on his bungalow's door. Almost every resident of Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, had a tale about the 74-year-old, who had been a smiling presence in this tiny corner of the market town for many years. For example, there was a man who lived next door to him. Dennis was able to help him knock down a wall in his coal shed, which he was turning into a lurcher. The old lady was driving her husband down the road. . www.google.com has a web page. Dennis was more than willing to mow the lawn for her. And then there was the father, who had recently moved into the neighborhood. . . Dennis - who used to own an angling store in nearby Stony Stratford, gave him some reels for his rod when he mentioned in passing that he likes fishing with his teenage son.

Pensioner who raped, stabbed and strangled 15-year-old girl nearly 50 years ago is convicted

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 19, 2022
Dennis McGrory, 75, (pictured left) is facing retaliation for a child who was raped and murdered nearly 50 years ago. In 1975, Jacqui Montgomery, 15, (right) was stabbed and strangled in Islington, London. The defendant was taken into custody to be convicted on January 13. Justice has now caught up with McGrory after swabs from Ms Montgomery's body resulted in a one-in-a-billion DNA match decades ago.

After a child barely had an eyelid on the clothes hook, Kmart was forced to pay over $60,000

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 31, 2022
Cecilia Chen (left and right) was shopping with her grandmother at Sydney's Chatswood Chase shopping center on January 8, 2020. On the rack below, the youngster noticed a pink t-shirt, jumped up to reach it, lost her balance, and smashed her right eye into a metal clothes hook before being admitted to a hospital where she underwent a four-hour operation to recover her eyelid. Last week, the NSW District Court heard she was left with a 'hairline' scare and that her parents are worried about the lifelong emotional toll.

As a casino ordered to pay, the Star loses his lawsuit against a disabled gambler who won the $285k pokies jackpot

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 22, 2022
David Joe was paid almost $320,000 in Sydney's District Court, which found that The Star (pictured) had illegally refused to hand over a jackpot that was won on October 25, 2019. Mr Joe, a Platinum Vantage VIP member who suffers from motor neurone disease, asked Lois Lie to help with the pokies in the casino.